Communications Responsibilities:
Regular Season - Women's Soccer, Football, Squash, Men's Swimming & Diving, Wrestling, Women's Golf, Softball, Women's Rowing
Postseason - Cross Country, Women's Soccer, Squash, Men's Swimming & Diving, Ivy Madness media operations, Softball, Women's Rowing
JJ Klein joined the Ivy League in the Assistant Executive Director of Communications & Championships role in July 2021.
He serves as the primary communications contact for cross country, football, men's basketball, men's and women's squash, men's and women's swimming, baseball and men's and women's rowing. He also assists with the adminstration of the league’s championships.
Klein arrived after a two-year stint in Army West Point’s athletic communications office, as both and athletic communications assistant (July 2019-January 2020) and assistant director of athletic communications (February 2020-July 2021). At Army, he served as the primary contact of 18 different programs and was the secondary football contact for the 2020 season. He was recognized as the District 1 (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Newfoundland, Price Edward Island, New Brunswick) General Blog/Feature winner for the 2020 Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest for his feature story A Match with Meaning.
Prior to his appointment at Army, Klein spent the 2018-19 academic year as a communications coordinator for Cornell. He was the primary communications contact for 11 varsity Big Red programs, and oversaw the communications efforts for women’s ice hockey’s trip to the Frozen Four.
Klein also held communications/media relations internships with the Buffalo Bills, Colgate University, Syracuse University, the Syracuse Crunch and the Syracuse Salt Cats.
He graduated cum laude from the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in December of 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in Sports Media.
A native of Baldwinsville, N.Y., he currently resides in Lawrence Township, N.J.